On Feb 18, 2011, at 8:54 PM, pbreit wrote: > I just had a site outage after deploying some code changes. Somehow, some of > my directories and files had become owned by root instead of www-data which > apparently denied some sort of access. I'm not exactly sure how it happens > and what the deal is with www-data. > > I'm running Cherokee on Ubuntu. For deployment I use fabric to hg pull from > bitbucket. > > I forgot which forlders/files were affected because I did a recursive chown > on the whole directory. Can anyone help me understand the need for www-data > ownership and how to make sure my files/folders remain properly owned. Thanks.
Cherokee runs as www-data, so anything it reads/writes must be readable/writable by www-data, and anything it creates will be owned by www-data.
